Fellow PC enthusiasts love to play games at the highest resolution and settings possible and now Intel and Samsung plan to work together to reduce prices of 4k monitors. PC hardware can be expensive enough especially to run the latest games at 4K resolution. However, the monitors themselves can cost over $800 USD and as a result Intel and Samsung want try to bring prices down to around $400 to expand adaption of higher resolution displays.
Of course as a gaming site we want to jump for joy in thinking that their motives are for gamers. However, this is a push to capture the AIO (All in one) and HTPC market with 24inch screens that have high pixel density.
Hopefully, this push for lower prices wont take too long as this could also drive prices down for monitors with lower resolutions such as 2560×1440.
Source: extremetech.com
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Until companies can create single gpu solutions that max out games at 4k, whatever they do is useless to me.
But having 50 inch panels that look just as good as a 25 inch one does at 1080p is definitely a good thing. Not for me but for designers and so on.
Says the guy running a 5870 still 😛 A single 290x does well @4K but medium ish specs with certain games I wanna say. So max 4K on a single GPU can’t be too much farther off.
Depending on how game requirements go though. If watchdogs becomes the norm….bleh
I’m still running a 5870 and a Q6600 because companies have done fuck-all over the past 6 years when it comes to game graphics man. Most games were using Unreal 3 for crying out loud and the frostbite games ran just fine.
Only the witcher gave me a hard time until watchdogs, but even that one seems to be mostly a programming problem and not my problem 😛
290x doing medium-ish with certain games and a single gpu maxing out all games at 4k is huge a huge difference :/ At least 2 years.
i agree with you, it seems, that as long as the programming is good (which it hardly ever is) most games run great on older hardware.
meanwhile it seems i need a new motherboard -_-
Just poking fun at ya sheesh.
And I think 4K is more than 2 years off.
Not if gpu companies impress us. They seem to do that whenever they are presented with a challenge.
3870->4870 and 7800 -> 8800 comes to mind. Double the performance in a single generation.
They just need the right incentive ;P
So I peeked at newegg today, Samsung has a 28″ Monitor 3180×2160 for $599. Listed as 60Hz even. Guess they made good on the promise of affordability.